Kominicki: Thank you, LIBDC

Jonathan LaMantia wrapped up his stint as an LIBN intern this week and heads back to his final year of college at the end of the month.

Unlike our colleagues at Fox, who recently drew a court’s ire for their handling of unpaid summer help, we did not put Jonathan to work tidying up the storeroom. He got a desk, a computer and a long list of the exact sort of crappy assignments the rest of us cut our teeth on.

That’s right, Yankee fans, we sentenced him to a full day in Red Sox Nation.

Like Fox, we did not pay Jonathan. This is a newspaper, after all. But the Long Island Business Development Council did provide a handsome honorarium to cover Jonathan’s travel and other expenses, not the least of which were the several rounds of drinks we forced him to buy after his last deadline.

OK, I’m kidding about the drinks. But I must thank the LIBDC for their long and continuing support of our region and their investment, through Jonathan, in our future.